One vote, one value HERE we go again – another election. Why, oh why do we continue in the ridiculous preferential voting system where we have to vote for candidates we […]

WHEN I saw the headline “Vincent dumps verge pickups” in last week’s Voice, I thought it was an April Fool’s joke, but no. One asks what on earth we are […]

Station toilets – is it that hard? THE current furore surrounding the replacement of the sculpture marking the history of Seventh Avenue bridge with a public toilet, is the result […]

A sobering thought ON March 1 the WA Public Health Advocacy Institute, the WA Local Government Association and the Mental Health Commission launched the local government alcohol management guidelines in […]

Lisa’s lure “WHERE there is no publicity (i.e. full disclosure) there is no justice,” Jeremy Bentham, 1748-1832. For a year by now, weirdly silent as the lambs, have been our […]

Just a shed PERTH federal MP Patrick Gorman having a wet-pants moment over the redevelopment of the old Bunnings site (“MP calls out Woolies”, Voice, January 16, 2019). Mate, the […]

Baby, we’ve got a problem WHAT is over-development? Is it towering structures reaching into the clouds in nearby suburbs? Is it increasing urban sprawl that digs into out pristine bushland? […]